Obsequious Purple & Clairvoyant Playlist 1-22-09

Craig Childs trying to eat my brain...he always tries to do that when we get together...and those teeth were made to open a skull cavity...

OPC Playlist for January 22, 2009. Stream it live Thursdays, 8-10am Mountain Time, here.

~8:00

Theme Music: Beau Hunks, "Birdlife in the Bronx", Celebration on the Planet Mars

Oren Lavie, "Her Morning Elegance", The Opposite Side of the Sea

Radiohead, "Dollars & Cents", Amnesiac

Andrew Bird, "Privateer", Noble Beast

Beck, "Soldier Jane", The Information

Phileas, "Welcome", Spoken Word

4 Bonjour's Parties, "Magpie Will Peck A Hole In My Plaster Cast", Pilgrims Drift Down...

William Orbit, "Humming Chorus", Hello Waveforms

Bon Iver, "Woods", unreleased EP

Radiohead, "Let Down", OK Computer

Elbow, "Starlings", The Seldom Seen Kid

Andrew Bird, "ouo", Noble Beast

Andrew Bird, "Not A Robot, But A Ghost", Noble Beast

Lemon Jelly, "Nice Weather For Duck", Lost Horizons

~9:00

Mike Doughty, "Ways And Means", Rockity Roll

Sigur Ros w/ Dr Joseph Lowery's Benediction (full benediction here)

Mike Doughty, "Fort Hood", Golden Delicious

Feist, "Sealion Woman", The Reminder

Jamie Lidell, "Multiply", Mulitply

Dana Bryant, "Heavy Mellow", Wishing From The Top

Marc Broussard, "Yes We Can, Can", S.O.S Save Our Soul

Zero 7, "Salt Water Sound", Simple Things

Nina Simone, "Feeling Good", Verve Remixed

Beck, "Everybody's Gotta Learn Sometime", Eternal Sunshine...

Mike Doughty, "I Wrote A Song About Your Car", Golden Delicious

Animal Collective, "My Girls", Merriweather Post Pavilion

Chatter box w/ "Baby Elephant Waltz" Upstairs At Larry's

More time travel...

Legend has it that Bessie Smith didn't need a microphone when she performed...that, even with a large ensemble of players, you could hear her voice clearly. Anywhere in the room. Even outside of the building where she was singing on the street. A big voice.

At least that's what Bobby Lounge told me, when I interviewed him for an npr story several years ago. Eccentric, reclusive, Bobby Lounge is worth his own blog post (at least one...)

But that will come in the future. For now, climb into this little Bessie Smith time machine (a youtube video) with its own anti-climactic, supa-highway weirdness. The machine: just a single shot of a record spinning....

When you get tired of looking, close your eyes and listen to the power of Bessie Smith's voice slicing from the distant past into your ear drums, taking you back...



Bessie Smith. A voice that cut through wax, walls and thick slabs of decadetime.

Seeing things....

I see robotic monkeys making crops circles...

The words come from a Mocky song, "Seeing Things", which I love more than most other people.....Every time I play it for someone else, I get a quizzical, confused, or slightly pitying expression in return. When I play it for myself, I'm sure my face doesn't register anything other than pure satisfaction

...I see Will Smith for president in 20-24....

And...well....the images above drifted through the transom mid-afternoon today~a grid of intergalactic tattoos, each like the signature markings on a butterfly.

...I see clones takin' over like they did before...

Sounds. Glyphs. Together, they are conquering the world. The change we need? Well, it's the change we've asked for....you know, "dogs saved humans for the last ten milleniums....'cause in the ten before that we was ruled by aliens...."

So, there you are. Happy hieroglyphic Friday.

Obsequious, Purple & Clairvoyant Show Playlist 1-15-09

The medium is the message...

On Thursday mornings, I'm a DJ in at a community station in Western Colorado. The Obsequious Purple and Clairvoyant show.....a veritable cornucopia of sonic sweetmeats and treats. OPC streams live, Thursdays 8-10am (mountain time) of KVNF-Mountain Grown Community Radio. You can listen here.

Obsequious Purple Clairvoyant Playlist for 1-15-09

~8:00am

Theme Music (The Beaux Hunks, "Birdlife in the Bronx"-A Celebration on the Planet Mars)

Bon Iver, "Skinny Love"-For Emma, Forever Ago

M Ward, "Blake's View"-Hold Time

Andrew Bird, "Anonanimal"-Noble Beast

LemonJelly, "The Bath"-LemonJelly.KY

Bird and the Bee, "Polite Dance Song"-Rayguns Are Not Just the Future

Andrew Bird, "Nomenclature"-Noble Beast

Bon Iver, "Woods"-Unreleased EP

Derek Trucks, "Already Free"-Already Free

Dan Bern, "Eva"-Fleeting Days

M Ward, "Stars of Leo"-Hold Time

Breeders, "Rise"-Mountain Battles

Gomez, "Notice"-How We Operate

~9:00am

Lemon Jelly, "The Staunton Lick"-LemonJelly.KY

M Ward, "Shaingra La"-Hold Time

Andrew Bird, "Not A Robot But a Ghost"-Noble Beast

Animal Collective, "My Girls"-Merriweather Post Pavilion

The Bird and The Bee, "My Love Diamond"-Ray Guns Are Not Just The Future

Lemon Jelly, "Nothing"-LemonJelly.KY

Radiohead, "Sit down. Stand Up."-Hail to the Theif

Radiohead, "I Might Be Wrong"-Amnesiac

Animal Collective, "Brother Sport"-Merriweather Post Pavilion

Tom Ze, "Ogodo, Ano 2000"-The Hips of Tradition

Herb Albert, "Green Onions"-Whipped Cream and Other Delights ReWhipped

Andrew Bird, "Natural Disaster"-Noble Beast

Listen to the new M Ward album Hold Time, here. Release date is February 20, 2009.

Listen to new Bon Iver EP here. Should be released next week.

What this country needs...

You may have heard Ant Neely's music while watching television (if you do that kind of thing...) Six Feet Under, Boston Legal, Las Vegas. Neely also writes songs, and he released an album late late year called Not Fit For Human Consumption, using audio from the prelinger archives, an amazing resources for all kinds of archival stuff. He took sounds and voice from old films reels and set them to music...

I like a number of the songs on this album....and even better: Neely released the album under a creative commons license, which means that he encourages people to share the music and remix it into new creative forms. You can download the album for free at his website, and donate what you think it's worth too.

Here's a video remix of some of the archival footage used on the album. It's an interesting, low-budg experiment. Slightly creepy footage. The well-scrubbed beatnik is former a mousketeer, Jimmy Dodd. I love the half-man/half-woman dancers at the end. Definitely worth a look while you download Neely's album.